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Chapter 39. Event Triggers
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Chapter 39. Event Triggers

Table of Contents

39.1. Overview of Event Trigger Behavior
39.2. Event Trigger Firing Matrix
39.3. Writing Event Trigger Functions in C
39.4. A Complete Event Trigger Example
39.5. A Table Rewrite Event Trigger Example

To supplement the trigger mechanism discussed in Chapter 38, PostgreSQL also provides event triggers. Unlike regular triggers, which are attached to a single table and capture only DML events, event triggers are global to a particular database and are capable of capturing DDL events.

Like regular triggers, event triggers can be written in any procedural language that includes event trigger support, or in C, but not in plain SQL.

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